Aepona announced today their new "Voice Call Continuity" for wireline and broadband service providers. Their solution integrates with the service provider's existing services, leveraging standard such as SIP, IMS, and SS7 to deliver intelligent rating and charging. Aepona goes beyond mere call handoff to provide a VCC solution that integrates with the service provider's existing services and OSS/BSS systems. Its VCC solution provides wireline and broadband IP service providers with the capability to seamlessly implement their fixed mobile convergence strategies by assuring scalability, service interaction, and intelligent rating and charging.
A unique aspect of Aepona's approach to VCC is the company's emphasis on the real-world challenges that are faced by service providers deploying fixed mobile convergence and triple or even quadruple play. Aepona's VCC solution addresses the process of continuing a voice (or video) call as a user moves between an IP-based access network that supports VoIP and a mobile network. As wireline and broadband service providers migrate to IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and offer their customers wireless service (either directly or as MVNOs), Aepona enables them to use VCC to offer the use of a single phone number (or SIP identity) as well as seamless transfer of services between a cellular network and an IMS/IP network.
The service provider then has the ability to deliver a truly converged service offering, rather than just being a single source of billing.
"The ability of subscribers to optimally move to and from any network based on the VCC specifications will be one of the main initial drivers for service providers to implement IMS in their networks," said Jean-Charles Doineau, Service Infrastructure Practice Leader at leading research firm, Ovum. "Many wireline service providers are taking a service-led approach towards adopting IMS, and our research indicates that they view VCC as being a strategically important element of their fixed mobile convergence strategies."
Call handover is the current focus of standards activity, however VCC does not exist in isolation and there are significant issues in its deployment. For example, as part of the drive towards the single phone concept with convergence, it is generally accepted that users will need to be to be charged differentially when using multiple networks. Aepona provides the call supervision needed to create the necessary charging records and crucially inter-work with real-time charging engines. It also ensures that charging is properly handled both for pre- and post- paid subscribers.
Aepona's VCC solution provides service interaction management to resolve conflicts between VCC applications that use both IN and SIP signalling with the same trigger points as other services and enable the services to interwork. This enables service providers to deploy existing value-added services using legacy technology and the ability to offer new ones will emerge as IMS/SIP takes hold. It also provides the intelligence and additional information, such as location and customer preferences, to ensure that unnecessary resources are not used by calls tromboning in and out of the IMS overlay.
"VCC functionality is native to our Universal Service Platform, including the required connectors to both SIP/IMS and SS7 networks, multi-party call control, user status and charging capabilities", said Kieran Dalton, Aepona's Chief Technical Officer. "This means that our VCC solution can address the necessary details that will make VCC a practical reality for wireline and broadband service providers."
android apple asterisk at&t blackberry cell phone cisco dell digium e911 facebook fcc google google talk gps im ip-pbx ipad iphone ipod itexpo ITEXPO lync microsoft mobile phone open source outage phone review sip skype sony unified communications verizon video video conferencing voip vonage wireless xbox 360
- Apple (280)
- Bittorrent (2)
- Call Center and CRM (48)
- Computer Hardware (183)
- Computer Software (71)
- Gadgets (650)
- Google (225)
- Home Entertainment (263)
- Internet (173)
- Linux (111)
- Microsoft (376)
- MovableType (48)
- News (187)
- Personal and Humor (118)
- Politics (9)
- Reviews (246)
- Security (2)
- Social Networking (42)
- Sports/Outdoor Technology (9)
- Tablets (32)
- Technology and Science (355)
- Unified Communications (471)
- VoIP (2285)
- Wireless (584)
- p2p (20)
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
Featured Videos